John Boy Saint

Ah well - shame really as that was turning out to be a madcap game

VAR might have a hand in that

What a gem from Breezy - “Ave it!”

Was that before or after the Balaclavas arrived - (not that they were called that at the time)

I've just come back from working at a Trade Show in Germany, working on our stand were a plethora of Sales folk from across the Globe, boys being boys Football gets folks talking. Sunday morning one of my Dutch colleagues says "hey John see your new player scored within minutes of coming on yesterday" - "Good luck with him for the rest of the season - he looked f****** s*** with us at Feyenoord last year!". (Dutch have a certain way with the F word) On another of our players, Damion Downs, my Hamburg supporting mate came on the stand begging again for us to take him back as "he stinks the place out". This was even more amusing when I shared the chat about him the previous night in the bar with a German colleague. There is a joke in the Bundesliga 2 that if you score a goal on Saturday afternoon, you could be playing in the Premier League by the following weekend having been sold for over 10 million. I said its not a joke we bought such a player Damion Downs, German born USA International allegedly, "nope never heard of him". Played for Koln in Bundesliga 2 last season, looks like someone who has been dragged from the crowd to play for us so far, we had a quick Google - Played for Koln II the previous season ............"in the Regionalliga" - "I played in the Regionalliga - and still did my day job" ..............."So maybe its not such a joke, he scored 10 goals in the Bundesliga 2 and got sold to the English Championship for £6m - sounds relative".

He was anonymous in the first half - probably got a kick up the arse at half time.

Ref seems to have rolled back to the 1970s - just letting them kick lumps out of each other 😁

Yes,!,

Azaz fast asleep

Is Downes even on the pitch?

Got him!!!

Rachel Reeves maybe? Just to get a shred of truth onto her CV 😛

For a moment I thought that we were going to be having a SaintWeb Christmas knees up - and knowing what a bunch or Herbert’s we are on here - @Yorkshire Saint in putting his hand up in organising it was starting the process that would very likely be like herding cats 🤪 …….put me down as a maybe please.

Bristol City really are the ladies bogey team

We were led by the nose with that narrative by the club in the first place.

My German mate was at the Hamburg (his team) v Gladbach game yesterday finished 0-0 despite Hamburg his message to me: “You were right, please take back this Damian Downes before the season ends! Yesterday Hamburg at home against Gladbach (0:0) he squandered chance after chance. Hamburg played really well with 23:1 shots on goal, but couldn't score....” In all seriousness - whilst thinking back to Danny Wallace when he went to Utd - for such a young man who has made the USA team, got bought by us for decent money to suddenly look nothing like his potential, feet getting into kerfuffle. Maybe people around him need help to have a deeper dive into his wellbeing.

The gift that keeps on giving

Madness that they thought shipping him out and piddling a wedge up the wall on the American

Or a very lucky boy

Man U haven't been clever in any department since SAF hung up his whistle - been a while since they have been a benchmark .........................unless you want to consider buying nothing plays at over inflated prices and having your pants pulled down royally in the process - think we have followed their lead on that one well: relative to our finances.

Slightly revealing of his mindset - we go out and get another keeper on loan who instantly plays in the cup and shows a few kamikaze moments, and yet Baz is looking for the exit straight away. Obviously something might have been said behind closed doors to him, a few of his deficiencies we have all seen not looking like ever being fixed despite possibly endless internal conversations. He obviously wants to keep his chances of going to the world cup alive, especially with matey at Brentford getting more game time, potentially sat on our bench ain't going to help that cause....................just as much of reason to fight. Just made me think back when Poch was in charge, Fonte was allegedly due to be stepped down to 3rd choice, or worse, behind Maya, unfortunately Maya came back from the Confederation Cup with Japan slightly broken, which gave Jose the opportunity to up his game, which he did, and ultimately keep Yoshida behind him in the queue for ages.

What a shame Man U out - “season over” apparently according to TNT

Delightful little flick from the corner by Brazil to flummox the Pompey keeper

Is Boruc MKII ?

“Skin of their teeth” to quote Adam Blackmore